The “through-train” scheme to allow mutual stock trading between Hong Kong and Shanghai marks the mainland’s latest effort to open up its capital account, yet market watchers doubt whether the nation is ready for a safe opening.Economists argued that some preconditions to open the door – allowing Chinese to invest overseas and foreigners to invest onshore – has not been […]
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Doms, Under Secretary for Economic AffairsBig Data and Open Data are all the rage these days. However,
Commerce was into Big Data before Big Data was cool. As far back as 1790, we
began collecting data on patents in the U.S. and the Census Bureau conducted
the first Decennial Census […]
Benchmarks snapped a four-day winning streak and ended lower on Thursday as investors adopted a wait and watch approach ahead of Friday’s nonfarm payroll data. Economic data came in mixed, hardly impacting the cautious stance of investors. These reports included better service sector data, higher weekly jobless claims and an increase in the U.S. trade deficit. Declines in bio-tech […]
Driving Big Data: Why Your Car Is the Next Media FrontierApr. 4, 2014 in Home Page, Media Insight, Mobile, The Week in VennData is the next Intel Inside.- Tim O’ReillyThe highway and the information superhighway have literally merged and your car is becoming the center of your connected universe, churning out an amazing amount of big data (and media) […]
The S&P closed at another record high yesterday boosted by encouraging private-sector hiring numbers. The benchmarks’ finish in the green was also aided by an increase in factory orders in February. This was the fourth-straight day of gains for the benchmarks.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s Ahead of Wall Street articleThe […]
The technologies that fly under the banner of “big data” may be new, but the business strategies have a familiar look.A prime example is the announcement on Wednesday from Pivotal, the big data and cloud computing company, a joint venture of EMC and VMware, in which General Electric has a stake.Pivotal is introducing its “Big Data Suite,” a bundle of […]
The technologies that fly under the banner of “big data” may be new, but the business strategies have a familiar look.A prime example is the announcement on Wednesday from Pivotal, the big data and cloud computing company, a joint venture of EMC and VMware, in which General Electric has a stake.Pivotal is introducing its “Big Data Suite,” a bundle of […]
Google Flu Trends, once a poster child for the power of big-data analysis, seems to be under attack.This month, in a Science magazine article, four quantitatively adept social scientists reported that Google’s flu-tracking service not only wildly overestimated the number of flu cases in the United States in the 2012-13 flu season — a well-known miss — but has also […]
Tell Us What You Think About Big Data and Privacy
John PodestaMarch 20, 2014 03:46 PM EDT Share This PostIn January, President Obama charged me with leading a […]
To make marketing data work, you need to be able to measure and understand performance against a standard set of metrics. The challenge lies in marrying data from web analytics with search and social signals, and then being able to tie that to business value (for example, the correlation of search rankings with visits and conversions).Did you know the average […]
